Tisdale v. Wheeler Bros. Grain Co., Inc.

OP ALA, Justice:

This appeal is sought to be prosecuted by three (3) lawyers who deem themselves aggrieved by the trial judge’s order, in a post-judgment ancillary proceeding, by which they were allowed, in counsel fees for representing two minor plaintiffs, substantially less than the percentage of total recovery fixed by their agreement with the minors’ mother as the children’s “next friend and natural guardian”. Our consideration on the motion to dismiss is confined to three narrow questions of law: (1) Does a lawyer have standing to appeal, with or without the consent of his client, from…